Search results for query: *

  1. Hector

    American Politics Thread

    All people who have spent their entire lives in civil service and are mainly known for being competent. Boy this will a nice change.
  2. Hector

    American Politics Thread

    It really goes all the way back to the 70's. The beginning of all this really lies in Watergate and Nixon's resignation (although you could even argue that it began with Nixon's election where he ran the southern strategy to perfection and courted the 'silent majority'). The lesson that the GOP...
  3. Hector

    American Politics Thread

    I honestly couldn't tell you how those people deal with what the GOP has come. Just one of the many reasons I walked and am never going back. As for the McCain vs Romney vs Johnson argument, I was pretty unclear previously about the simple fact that my views on issues changed over the years in...
  4. Hector

    American Politics Thread

    So one thing to keep in mind is that many of those progressives sit in safe blue seats where they weren't going to lose. AOC for example won her seat by 40 points because of where her district is in NYC (I've lived in NYC since 2013 and let me just say that I'm frankly surprised the Republican...
  5. Hector

    American Politics Thread

    Well... that was certainly an eventful couple of weeks in American history. After spending four days straight streaming CNN before, during and after work, taking a break for a week from anything political was good for the sanity. But now, we're staring at control of the senate coming down to...
  6. Hector

    American Politics Thread

    So for me, the thing that really strikes out to me about Beto is that un-quantifiable x-factor: that being the fact that he inspires people. I know that Ted Cruz is uniquely unlikable, but for a Democrat (and not even an extremely moderate one) to make a run at winning a senate seat in Texas...
  7. Hector

    American Politics Thread

    Beto's my guy.
Back
Top Bottom